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| Title |
Reasons for and factors associated with issuing sickness certificates for longer periods than necessary: results from a nationwide survey of physicians
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, May 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-478 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Richard Bränström, Britt Arrelöv, Catharina Gustavsson, Linnea Kjeldgård, Therese Ljungquist, Gunnar H Nilsson, Kristina Alexanderson |
| Abstract |
Physicians' work with sickness certifications is an understudied field. Physicians' experience of sickness certifying for longer periods than necessary has been previous reported. However, the extent and frequency of such sickness certification is largely unknown. The aims of this study were: a) to explore the frequency of sickness certifying for longer periods than necessary among physicians working in different clinical settings; b) to examine main reasons for issuing sickness certificates for longer periods than necessary; and c) to examine factors associated with unnecessary issued sickness certificates. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Australia | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 57% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 29% |
| Scientists | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 18 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 17 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 4 | 22% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 4 | 22% |
| Unknown | 2 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 56% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 6% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 2 | 11% |
| Unknown | 2 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2013.
All research outputs
#7,115,080
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,344
of 15,466 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#58,660
of 197,140 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#130
of 282 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,881,329 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 15,466 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 282 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its contemporaries.